Kate Andersen Brower Books in Order

Drawing on interviews with White House staff, Brower explores life inside the presidential residence. The stories of cooks, maids, butlers, florists, and other workers reveal the private routines, emotional upheavals, and demanding logistics behind a public institution.

This group portrait examines the lives and influence of modern American first ladies, from Jacqueline Kennedy to Michelle Obama. Interviews with staff, advisers, and friends explore their political ambitions, family relationships, rivalries, and responsibilities within the White House.

Through interviews with former vice presidents and people around them, Brower examines the relationships between presidents and their deputies. The book traces loyalty, ambition, friction, and changing expectations in an office poised between obscurity and the presidency.

Young readers explore the White House through its rooms, residents, and the staff who keep it functioning. Photographs, anecdotes, and historical details show the work behind state occasions and the everyday life unfolding inside the presidential home.

Brower follows five former presidents after their White House years, exploring how they adjust to diminished power. Interviews and personal stories reveal unexpected friendships, political disagreements, and the continuing effort to define a public role and historical legacy.

Using private letters, diaries, and interviews, Brower traces Elizabeth Taylor’s career, turbulent relationships, and determination to control her life. The portrait follows a child star into business, celebrity, and activism during the AIDS crisis.

This introduction to the United States Capitol explores its history, hidden spaces, and the people who keep Congress operating. Stories of pages, librarians, and other staff reveal the work behind a building central to American democracy.

This history follows American women whose contributions to freedom and equality have often received too little recognition. Through individual lives, from early printers and abolitionists to soldiers and reformers, it examines how women challenged the country to fulfill its founding promises.